The Russellville Democrat., 1887-07-20
THIRTEENTH YEAR.---NO. 27.
MIR. AND MRS. BowsER.
What the Good Lady Has to Say About
 Her Husbands Tinkering Abilities.

loose the other uay, ana tnc Elrl dt tlle same time reported pane of glass dait ill the kitchen and broken caster on the extension-table. I asked MT. Bow ser if he wouldn't send up man to make repairs and he replied
 'I was just wishing for something to busy myself at for few days. I'll get some tools and go through the house and repair and improve.
 l ventured to remind him that he spent the best part of two days and nights repairing the leg of stand. and that it fell down and broke fif- teen dollar vase as soon as he had pro- nounced repairs complete, and he put his hands under his coat-tails, called up an awful frown, and replied:
 Mrs. Bowser, when 1 don't know what I'm about I'll look for you to ad- wise mel"
 In about an hour after leaving the house he returned with six files, three gimlets, a screw-driver, two hammers, a brace and several bits and drills, a bottle of cement, three pounds of nails, a putty-knife and putty, and various other things, while paint, varnish and brushes soon followed him.
 ''The whole outfit cost but SIS. 40" he explained, as he opened the bundle with smile of pride on his face, "and l can keep the house in repair for two or three years. I'll do hundred dol lars worth of repairing in the next week.
 Mir. Bowser made his start on the broken window pane. He got a chair outdoors to stand on, knocked out the remnants of the pane and then put in three hours work removing the old putty. This was not accomplished um- til he had cracked two other panes, broken sleeve button and cut himself in three places. Then he put in the new light, used shingle nails for brads and spread on the putty until it would have fallen off by it's own weight had he not braced it with sticks.
 "Well, what do you think of thatP' he asked as he came out to look at the job.
 You've used lots of putty"
 Certainly. A glazier would have stolen half of it. I don't propose to be stingy with my own family"
 "Well. it may do."
 May do! Mrs. Bowser, what do you know about glazing, anyhow! 1 don't say that ever learned the trade, but if there are three men in Detroit who'll beat that job I'll eat up all the puttyt'
 That evening he discovered that all of the kitchen chairs were exactly three fourths of an inch too high, and he sawed the legs off while the cook held them down on their backs. As result No. l tipped backwards, No. ? leaned forwards, while No. 3 was what sailors would call on it's beam ends to star board. went to bed leaving him try ing to solder leak in an old tin dipper, and next morning found four holes burned in the kitchen floor, two in the leg of his pants, and drippings of sol der all over the stove and the sink, while the dipper had been mashed flat. Breakfast was hardly over before he found door which sagged. He got il off its hinges and planed away, and he got it back on and squinted and meas ured and reflected, and after half q day's work he had an air-hole at the top, rat-hole at the bottom, and the lock so far away from the jamb that il was useless.
 In the afternoon 1 went out, and MT. Bowser laid down the carpenter tools and took up the varnish brush. The varnish was too thick to spread and he thinned it down with kerosene. The wood work of my new sewing machine, which was, of course, oil finish, re- ceived his first attention, and he had such good luck that he tried his luck oil the parlor mantel, the baby's crib, the wood work of the parlor chairs and the spare room bedstead, When reached home he was trying to con vince the cook that all the kitchen floor needed to keep itself clean for the next six months was q coat of varnish.
 MT Bowser, what on earth have you done?" l exclaimed as l reached home and realized the extent of the damage.
 "Why, added five hundred dollars to the looks of our furniture" he proudly replied
 It cost him ten dollars to hire man to remove the compound he had brushed l,.f burglar-alarm useless for week try. lg to run an extra wire to the barn lie tried to repack valve in one oi the radiators, and we got steamed out of the sitting room and had to send fol steam-ftter. He tinkered with the front door-bell, and it doesn't ring yet except as an agent pulls it. He spoiled three locks, got the gas to leaking bursted a water-pipe and laid the cook up for a week by spilling hot lead in her shoe. Then he packed up his tool: and carried them to the barn, and re, turned with smiling face to say to me
 Mrs. Bowser, if any thing else gets ont of order let me know. A stitch in tune saves nine, and there is deer satisfaction in knowing that you ars not dependent on Tom, Dick and Harry only wish that had seven houses on my hands to repair. n-D Detroit Free Press
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